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This time last year he was the bookies favourite to take the job. Until, that old fraud stole another two years of our lives.

Although, it would have been bloody stupid of the board to have not inserted a caveat in that contract to state we have the option to deploy the ejector seat, in the event of a poor first season, preventing the club suffering a second.
Either way, you cannot envisage the situation of him going into a final year, while everything turns to s hit around him.

Although, it would have been bloody stupid of the board to have not inserted a caveat in that contract to state we have the option to deploy the ejector seat, in the event of a poor first season, preventing the club suffering a second.
Either way, you cannot envisage the situation of him going into a final year, while everything turns to s hit around him.

There's little chance of that, I'm afraid, for the simple reason that while Wenger Himself may merely wish to stay, our board is absolutely desperate for Him to stay. I mean, if they were to ask Him to leave, He would leave, whereas if He told them He wanted to leave, they would beg Him to stay.

So, in a sense, He's got them over a barrel, albeit a mutually agreeable barrel. And an attempt to insert any such ejector-seat caveat or clause would simply be rejected by Wenger's people. Therefore there would be no such attempt.

After all, we didn't offer Him a contract extension because we wanted to sack Him, did we. We did so because we (or anyway, E. Stanley & Co.) want Him to stay.

"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.

"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."